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...German soil as at the reality of unspecified crises still to come. In this farseeing aim lies the significance of his speech. Beyond its impact on the Berlin question - and impact it will surely have - the nation's new mood and new strength should douse any future brush fires that Khrushchev chooses to light. For if the U.S. is prepared to deal with aggression militarily - and there can be no doubt now that it is - then it will be all the more prepared to deal with it in advance by diplomacy...
Bracing for Brush Fires. The review will range across U.S. defensive power-from high-flying bombers to Navy troopships. But it will focus on U.S. capability of fighting a conventional war, the weapons and manpower that can be strengthened significantly in a few months' time. Under consideration: calling six Army Reserve divisions and six National Guard divisions to active duty...
...seriously suggest that calling up a dozen Reserve divisions will make Khrushchev hesitate to make a grab for Berlin. But the Army wants to prepare as fast as it can for any brush fires the Russians may set around the rim of the Western world while U.S. attention is riveted on Germany. Rushing its readiness, the Defense Department last week announced that it will build up the Army full strength (870,000) by drafting 8,000 men in August, the largest draft call since last December...
Steam heat is, in fact, the ideal climate for Mauldin's style of searing creativity. In an art that often uses a shovel instead of a rapier, a backslap instead of a boot, Mauldin, 39, wields the hottest editorial brush in the U.S. Full of caustic and rebellious passions, he boils over onto his drawing board with the scalding effect of a well-aimed spit of lava. "You've got to be a misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends...
...venture was Managing Director Edward Tatham, who abbreviated the name of the whisky to J. & B. on finding that Justerini & Brooks was too much of a mouthful for U.S. bartenders and elbow benders. Tatham, now 63, has passed active management to Co-Managing Director Ralph Cobbold, 55, a brush-mustached, ex-Coldstream Guards officer who was captain of cricket at Eton and won his blue at Cambridge. Though a four-way fight for first place in the U.S. Scotch market is shaping up. Cobbold is certain that there is one tactic he will not use: price cutting. "We insist," says...